Actress During the seventies, Claudia Lennear was a musical pioneer who sang background vocals across the genres on stage and on recordings with Ike and Tina Turner, Allen Toussaint, the Rolling Stones, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, George Harrison, Elton John, Steven Stills, Taj Mahal, and many others.
The young beauty was named Princess of the 1957 Carnaval in Hermosillo, and parlayed that into work as a model.
Nina was smarter than most of her peers, and she matriculated in 1970 when she was only 14.